Liz Canning/2019/86 min/Built Environment: Transportation, People & Culture
FILM DESCRIPTION: “Motherload” is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mom's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world. As Liz explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle's history and potential future as the ultimate "social revolutionizer." Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice but that there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing.
Saturday, March 7, 6:30 to 9 p.m. [South]
Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago
Join us after the film for an engaging discussion, facilitated by Elizabeth Lyon, Small Business & Circular Economy Manager, Plant Chicago. Learn about solutions-based action opportunities with Blackstone Bike Works, Divvy, Wisconsin Bike Federation and Green Mountain Energy. Refreshments will be available.
Doors open 30 minutes before start time. Arrive early to avoid lines and get best seats. "PG-13" May contain heavy themes, graphic images or language.